In removing accumulation, f38, Swar encountered a large surface of hard-packed bakhia, a local virgin soil which is red with white inclusions. Designated f50, preliminary analysis indicates that it may be the surface of a monumantal terrace that led upward from the boundary wall, f11, to the BA Early Dynastic IIIb temple.
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Relayed, re-photographed, and removed three large stones, f66, f67, and f68, which were overhanging the typological column k104 and endangering the workmen. All were founded on brown soil.
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